Example sentences of "[vb -s] up to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1	Editorial decisions are backed by extensive market research , and manuscripts selected and edited according to ‘ whether the story lives up to the high standards that Mills and Boon readers have set for us … we ca n't please every one of our readers all the time , but it is n't for want of trying ! ’
2	Helen chose a small-patterned carpet that stands up to the combined wear and tear of two dogs , two cats and three children .
3	The plain-clothed cockney sidles up to the moustached man , grinning .
4	EAST END gangster Harry Shand ( terrific , tough-talking turn by Bob Hoskins ) wakes up to the new age and discovers the IRA muscling in on his turf .
5	Turn left on the road and walk for around 900 yards before turning right onto a path which leads up to the old railway and joins a road up to Castle Bolton Village .
6	What emerges from an examination of the FFYP is that it set a pattern for the Soviet economy that persists up to the present day .
7	the other the black moment you know th the bit where I I put in the bit where the he broke his leg and the mortgage was gon na be foreclosed on him I mean that builds up to the black moment which is a necessary part of the story and then he got out of it erm because the house relented and showed him where the copper kettle was that was worth the money .
8	The clubface effortlessly squares up to the ball-to-target line for a straight ball flight .
9	I ought in all fairness to acknowledge that no American fault comes up to the revolting habit … of dropping or wrongly inserting the letter h .
10	The party 's chair , Sara Parkin , said : " Unlike the other political parties , this manifesto faces up to the real issues " .
11	Quietly , unhesitatingly — just like that — he faces up to the moral consequences of his realization .
12	British Bulldog faces up to the big challenge
13	Yes that makes up to the total number of guns .

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